Chapter 1598 – [Echo]

As long as there is a concept of time in the world, time will pass even if you just leave it alone. No matter how much you load, the passage of time itself is something that cannot be helped.

Time Lords can stop time and go back, but that doesn’t mean they can stop time forever and go back. Probably the same goes for the Absolute of Time.

Anyway, after the Garden of Eden tour event over the weekend, Monday morning, a weekday, dawned. As usual, Eden and I wake up early to go to work at the store or go to college to take classes.

“Dad, what’s on the menu this week?”

“I wanted to take chicken and make it taste like a multi-course meal. The atmosphere of the store has changed, so I had to worry about serving sophisticated dishes.”

“Maybe that’s why my dad’s store got good reviews. I’m not sure yet if it’s good for him to come out.”

“We’ll just have to wait and see.”

Customers don’t lie. No matter how bad I am or what I said before, if it’s a perfect restaurant, I’ll go there again. On the other hand, I’m not threatening you to eat with a kitchen knife, but if it doesn’t taste good, just don’t come.

If it’s perfect, I’ll come again, otherwise I’ll fail. That’s one of the biggest reasons why stores fail.

So I also pay a lot of attention to that. The menu does not change every day like before, but it is served as a course meal every week. Although it no longer has the atmosphere of a noisy restaurant, it has become a sophisticated restaurant where you can enjoy delicious food in a good atmosphere.

Although the unit price has risen considerably, many of the materials are used in the Garden of Eden, so it is not that expensive. Since you can enjoy delicious dishes made with good ingredients at a reasonable price, it is impossible for it to not be popular.

When I went to work at the store, I could see people gathered in front of our store again today. Although it is less than when I just came out, there are quite a lot of people, perhaps because of the Garden of Eden tour event.

And a few reporters cautiously approached me and quietly asked if I had the ability to learn. Since he doesn’t make a fuss and just asks questions, I’m half-hearted, but I answer anyway.

“Mr. Choiak, I would like to ask you about this Garden of Eden tour event and your future plans…”

“I have plans to visit later, but it’s not decided yet, so I’ll leave it at that. As for food ingredients, as Eden said on the broadcast, I’ll soon open a supermarket and sell them.”

“Oh, then are you sure about the Eden Mart plan?”

“What do you think about the problems in the surrounding commercial districts?”

“The land around that area is all yours anyway, so you don’t have to worry about the commercial area. Even the places that aren’t there are benefiting from the influx of people because of the Garden of Eden. It would be nice if more people flocked in, but it wouldn’t be a bad thing, right?”

“I think so… Yeah? Wait a minute. It’s your wife’s, isn’t it in Mr. Worst’s name?”

“Ah.”

If you think about it, Shion hasn’t come out yet, so people probably don’t know.

If Zion was the one who could control the world economy as he pleased, it would definitely be more infested with flies than it is now. I couldn’t hide it for the rest of my life, so I had to look at the timing… I wonder if I’ve relaxed too much since I came out.

“We’re a married couple, so what? And my wife is better at managing money and real estate. Who do you think is why Eden is so smart?”

“Miss Eden seems to resemble your wife not only with her appearance, but also with her hair.”

“Right. Anyway, once I’m done with the questions, I’ll go in. I have to prepare the store and do that.”

“Yes, thank you. I hope your business prospers.”

But there was someone who caught me trying to get in.

A middle-aged man with a rather haggard complexion staggered towards me as if he was nervous, and then knelt down and begged me and shouted earnestly as I was about to enter the store.

“Whew, evil emperor!!! Please help me!!!!”

“What the hell.”

The man who was holding my pants and begging me cried like a child. It looks pretty ugly, but that means it’s a difficult situation.

But what can I do? If it’s your first meeting, and you come and ask for help, do you think I’m the kind of person who will help you? He’s not even my acquaintance?

I am too busy helping people I know, so I have no interest in helping people I have no relationship with. Then, I shook off the man who was grabbing my pant legs and pushed him away.

“Let’s go without worrying about busy people.”

“It’s because I feel so wronged!!! Please help me just this once. If we continue like this, my family will end up on the street…!!!”

“What does that have to do with me?”

“… Yes?”

“If they come to me and ask for help just because they’re famous when we’re not even acquaintances, should I help them? Do I look like some kind of brat?”

There are no limits when dealing with people like this. If you see that you are asking me for help, you are probably asking for extra-legal help because you can’t do anything with the current Korean law, but if you do this once, you will do it again and again.

When I get angry, I ignore the law and make fun of people, but I wonder what’s wrong with that, but at least I deal with things I’ve harmed according to the law. If you mess with my acquaintances or family and are not satisfied with the legal punishment, then I will punish you.

But it’s not my business, much less my acquaintance’s business, it’s someone else’s business, so is there any reason why I should help them? I don’t think there is one?

“Did you report it to the police?”

“Yes, yes… But that fraudster ate my money and is not giving it back!!! It’s my family’s entire property!!!!”

“Then that means the police are incompetent, and the law is an asshole. I’m neither a hero nor a problem solver. There’s no reason to help, so just go.”

“Young Emperor!!!!!”

I kicked the man away and went straight into the store. There was a bit of a commotion outside, but it didn’t bother them.

Jihee seems to have been watching through the window of the store, wondering what was going on. He asked me what happened outside.

“Mister, what happened?”

“I’m not even a civil servant, but I’m asking for help.”

“You belong to the Cheonmu Association, so wouldn’t you be a civil servant?”

“Ah, then all people with special abilities registered with the Cheonmu Association are civil servants? Just because you have a resident registration card doesn’t mean you have a civil servant license.”

“That might be different from you… Well, if not, it’s okay.”

“That’s right. Among the desserts we’re having today, there’s chocolate made with cacao from the Garden of Eden. Would you like to taste it?”

“Please!!!!!”

Girls are crazy about sweets. I hoped that the matter would go away like that, but that was just my wish and the man came again the next day.

Moreover, if you don’t just come here like a one-person protest in front of our store, there’s no reason we can stop you. First, one-person protests themselves are not separately punished under Korean law.

Putting that aside, the picket sign of a man protesting alone in front of the store said this.

[I was scammed by rent.]

Roughly speaking, the house was bought by a person who owed more than the rent. So, I paid the deposit, but the house ended up being auctioned off.

Being scammed is not a crime. Because the blame lies not with the victim but with the perpetrator, that is, the fraudster. But why do they do that in front of our store?

I’m annoyed, but I don’t touch it. At least not yet.

“I think he’ll keep doing that. What are you going to do?”

“Leave it alone. If you help with something like that, other merchants will flock in, so it’s best to ignore it.”

“Reporters seem to be interested?”

“Even so, there are limits.”

Still, I became interested in noise marketing. That person may have been aiming for this, but at least it became known to the media, and it became an issue.

[Lease fraud. Is it okay to leave it like this!!!]

[Jeonse scammer destroying the economy of the common people!!!]

[A person who has been defrauded by a fraudster and asks the Emperor for help. What is the treatment?]

This kind of noise marketing may be effective, but it seems like it really did work. It’s just the kid who was protesting in front of our store, but we heard that the scammer returned the deposit.

Could it be that the thief was completely numb? Well, I don’t plan on doing that, but I might have thought that if I continued, someday I would have to do something about it. It would have been better to just return the deposit.

But if there’s a problem, it’s later. People who had experienced all kinds of unfair things in society began to flock in, thinking that I had done something for them.

“Emperor!!!! Please help me too!!!”

“I blew the whistle, but instead I got fired from my job!!!!”

“The store has lost a lot of customers because of this abusive person!!!!”

“Emperor!!!! Please, us too…”

I didn’t do anything, but the results were good, and all ten kids came.

I thought differently. If ignoring it doesn’t change the results, you have no choice but to think differently. Oh, of course I wasn’t saying I was helping, it was the opposite. And although it was small, there was also a cause.

“I told you not to make a fuss in front of our store, but you’re making a fuss? Okay, even if you don’t kill them, you’ll have to break their legs.”

“Yes?!”

“Just one guy.”

Ahhhhh !!!

I smashed the legs of the guy who was protesting in front of our store with a low kick. It’s an injury that can be recovered without any aftereffects if you go to the hospital and get treatment, but getting hurt now is a different problem.

And when I started committing violence in earnest, people started screaming and running away. But that doesn’t mean that if you let them go, I won’t even have to watch them, and I’ll chase them all down one by one and break their legs.

“Now, wait a minute!!!! Over there!!!”

“Fuck!!! I’m going to sue you!!!! I’m going to sue you bastard!!!!!”

“Ah, okay. Then shall I kill the bastard who sues?”

“Hi!!! Now, I was wrong!!! Please…!!!!”

When I tried to make my fist in earnest, the bastard who wanted to sue me shut her mouth. If you mess up your business in front of someone else’s store, they should think about it too. Why don’t they think of that? Are you an idiot?

Anyway, as soon as we got into a fight, the police and ambulances came and there was no chaos. Even if it was an ambulance, I thought it might be a problem for the police, but instead, a police officer who was seriously injured spoke to me cautiously.

“Um… You’re a bad guy, right? I have a few questions to ask, is that okay?”

“I broke my leg and made a fool of myself by begging for help in front of our store. There are other reporters around, so you can ask them.”

“Ah, yes. But hey, that…”

“If you need to be arrested, go and tell your superiors. The president will have to come to arrest you, or else get out of the way.”

“… Yes, I understand.”

If it were a normal thing, I would comply with public authority, but wouldn’t it be unfair for those bastards to want more from me than public authority, so I have to go to jail just because I broke the law?

So, that issue was also passed over. Actually, this wasn’t my favorite process or result, but since I came out anyway, there was no need to worry about it, so let’s move on.

This incident must have been covered in the news, so when I returned home, my family knew about it. Eden shouted when he saw me coming home.

“Wow!!! It’s a shin-bone killer!!!!”

“What is that again?”

“Dad’s nickname. It’s given to dozens of people because he made them all idiots.”

“I’m not an asshole. I’m really an asshole if I have aftereffects. Isn’t it a bit much to call an asshole if you have injuries that won’t be a problem once you recover?”

“People don’t seem to think that way?”

“Write.”

Aside from the reporters who gathered in front of the house, this is probably the first incident that will cause controversy after coming out.

The good news is that once we had a blast, no one came back to our store and whined. No matter how unfair it is, you don’t want anything broken, right?

To put it kindly, people rarely get offended. So, the fact that I often think that violence is a good means of communication is not my fault, but the fault of humans themselves.

Anyway, I’m faithful to my work at the store… And Eden has decided to focus on the other side, along with the university side. It’s not about Inbang or Cheonmu Association, but about the model side.

She also debuted as a model. Moreover, when I came out this time, their reaction was no joke.

“The CEO said he was happy because we were receiving a lot of requests for advertisements and appearances.”

“There is no such thing as abuse of power?”

“In the past, he was like that secretly, but after coming out, he is actually acting abusively, which has changed the relationship between him and his partner.”

“If it was secretly there, there must have been a bastard who talked about selling pillows.”

“I did it when I didn’t know, so leave it alone. And if that happens, the CEO will find your weakness and take advantage of it.”

Jang, CEO of Fashion Art Entertainment, where Eden belongs, is a trustworthy and capable person. So, Eden chose it as his agency. Especially since he is a person who hates things like pillow sales.

Those guys who are talking about pillow sales are going to take advantage of that by threatening to tell me that if they threaten me, they will destroy the entire agency. If Eden stops me and supports me by tearing me apart like that, I will endure it at least once.

And now that they’ve come out, they’ll probably develop into a large agency as well. They also benefit a lot from us.

“That’s right. Now that I think about it, there’s a typhoon coming this time, so I think I’ll have to go to Japan to stop it.”

“Is this your first time going to Japan after coming out? I’m busy, so let’s go on the weekend.”

“Now I don’t have to worry about radiation, so I can eat a lot of seafood!!!”

“What if I ate it before?”

Maybe it’s because I came out, but there’s a lot to do. In some ways, it may have been too quiet before, but if you look at it one by one, there was a lot going on.

I can’t help it, because I came out thinking I could deal with it. If not, I would have just left this dimension instead of starting from the beginning.

“In Japan, I have to share a room with Mr. Susanoo!!!!”

“That too will cause an explosion in subscribers.”

It is a Japanese god that appears in Japan. Strictly speaking, he is not a Japanese god, but even so, it would be fun if Mr. Susanoo were to unravel some mythological stories.

Why is it like ‘Hey!!! If I say ‘I’m Joji Yamata-no-Orochi, and I’m going to reveal the story of how I got the new sword!!!’, I think I’ll bring drinks and snacks too, right?

“When I hang out with Mr. Susanoo, I should ask him if he would like his name to appear in a ninja manga technique.”

“You already know what I hate?!”

“And I asked you to tell me about the early days of my father’s past life, when he was in the middle of middle school.”

“Aaaaah!!! That’s not possible!!!!”

“What’s wrong, elf killer dad?”

“Quaaaaa!!!!!”

The feeling of having my shameful past revealed to my daughter is truly an indescribable feeling.